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Edited By Keith Allan and Kasia M. Jaszczolt

This book "fills the unquestionable need for a comprehensive and up-to-date handbook on the fast-developing field of pragmatics" and "includes contributions from many of the principal figures in a wide variety of fields of pragmatic research as well as some up-and-coming pragmatists."

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This book presents a collection of papers on the issue of focus in itsbroadest sense. While commonly considered as being related to phenomenasuch as presupposition and anaphora, focusing is much more widely spread,and it is this pervasiveness that the current collection addresses. Thework loosely originates from a conference held in 1994 in SchlossWolfsbrunnen in Germany, although only a small subpart of the proceedingspapers presented are included here. The contributed papers have beenreworked for the current volume to present a coherent study of the subject.